I guess I'm grumpy tonight, but what's wrong with goin' to the good ole CLI cmd.exe and typing FTP when you want to, um, ftp?
Maybe it's me, I just don't see how adding a GUI to FTP helps much. Of course I don't do it very often, you are prolly some mega web designer with a thousand ftp sites to log into every day.
Still, it reminds me of the mac user whose way of expaining the FTP server wasn't responding was to say "the dog isn't running."
When you say "women are responsible for slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence" Do you mean because they were asking for it?
(That was a joke.)
Women in the U.S. are likely to feel superior to men. I've noticed that this is a very popular theme in television ads. For example, the ad for Sears' ToolTown; it shows mom driving the minivan and telling the children to behave themselves in the store. As it turns out, the children are three grown dopey looking men.
So this would seem to be an instance of the superior woman. But is it really? Consider all the extra work this woman has to do to care for these three grown men. She has to drive them around, keep tabs on them, be their social conscience. While it's true that she's in control, I don't think that she's really superior, if you consider that she's basically a chauffeur.
There are many more ads like this one, that seem to play on women's superiority. In fact, I think they offer women servitude, wrapped up in a package that looks like dominance. Men are dumb, they need us to help them through day-to-day life. The message is that women, the superior sex, have an obligation to help these poor dopey men make it from day to day.
That's not superiority, even though it may make women THINK they're superior, and clearly the woman in the Sears ad THINKS (no, she knows) that she's superior. In actuality she's trapped by her superiority because the only way she can excel is by serving inferior men.
Gorbachev was faced with a similar situation towards the end of the Soviet Union. Once the eastern bloc and the smaller SSRs got a little taste of freedom, they all had to have it, now, and USSR collapsed. If he could have meted out reform over years, perhaps decades, the Soviet Union might still be around today.
I'm no expert, but last I heard, Russia as a "free country" isn't doing much better than the USSR. Let me rephrase that: The people of Russia aren't much better off as Russians then they were as Soviets a dozen years ago. THey may even be worse off, even though their country isn't "evil" anymore, they're just as poor, maybe moreso.
For my money, the one thing that counters your argument about British Imperialism "adding value" to its colonies is the "Divide and Conquer" aspect of it. Look at all the crazy borders between nations in Africa and the Middle East. The Brits drew them that way to keep internal strife at a maximum, thus Britian could reign supreme at the International level. Afghanistan for example, why is it even a "nation" when as we keep hearing it's just a bunch of warlords? Perhaps there are some parts of the world that aren't easily integrated into Western Civilization's paradigm of how society works, but the Brits just drew the lines on the map anyway, put their man in power, and said "here's your counrty!"
Funny how we're all getting into these rambling political discussions; definitely wasn't that big a thread pre 9-11...
IBM has great support, that's true. Their website is great if you have a bunch of laptops to administer, you can build a little database of all your systems, yadda yadda yadda. I recently pulled an unused laptop out of the closet; wondered What's this doing here? The HD was bad, the unit was still under warranty (1 month left on 3 year warranty). IBM sent me a new HD, no questions asked.
The problem with ThinkPads, though, is that they don't have that little windows key. Obviously, this might not be a problem for everyone. However I have become dependent on Windows-E, Windows-F and Windows-R in my daily life. It's another one of those things they copied from the Mac, and it's awesome.
I had to give up using that old ThinkPad because of the windows key problem. I wish IBM would get off their high horse, realize that Microsoft won, and start putting the windows key on their laptop. It's really useful, especially if you run Windows.
Windows XP Recycle Bin is in the lower right corner. They've been waiting 15 years to do that.
Democrats: Rape the earth and all Americans will be rich Republicans: Rape the earth and Republicans will be rich
Neither party has a viable philosophy because both parties have (mostly) the same philosophy. Issues like abortion, the right to die, and drug use, which are basically non-issues, (or personal issues which shouldn't be decided by politicians) are the only differences between them. Both are pro-big-business. Both get most of their $$$ from big business.
Ultimately they will fail because their survival is predicated on a 16th-centurty paradigm of creating wealth from an endless supply of natural resources. Yeah, a lot of it is still valid today, but some of it is starting to look a little fishy in a world with 50% of the rainforest it once had, dozens of species going extinct every day, and a human population whose growth rate is akin to a cancer.
But that's just my opinion, and it's totally off-topic too!
When grandma goes to Circuit City to buy a computer so she can get email from the grandkids, and comes home with a $3500 Pentium IV 512 MB RAM GeForve IV and Printer Scanner DVD-RW, you don't think that's wrongdoing?
No *respectable* business will sell you something you don't need, or the wrong product to suit your needs.
Both parties behaved improperly. California entered into an agreement without knowing what they were getting, and Oracle led them down the primrose path (or should I say they maximized value for shareholders.) In the real business world, the company would just say, look, we know we signed but we're not paying anyway, here's your software back. Sue us if you have the time and money. Since it the State of California, Oracle will probably get their bucks since Cali. has to follow the letter of the law.
(I worked for a dot-com that simply didn't pay and returned the software to another dot-com, after management realized we didn't need a $70,000 email auto-response system. On the other hand, no-one realized we didn't need $30,000 of routers to connect two offices with less than 20 people each. Ah, those were the days.)
Win2k sp2, all the latest updates, IE 5.0 (the one that comes with 2000)
I get about a five-line javascript error. And I just set my security level to Low, it still don't work. Damn MS products, don't even respond to the latest 'sploits properly.
Your comment about Ted Bundy is not very accurate. True, he did make that claim about pornography as he neared his execution. Most people don't think those comments were particularly sincere, nor are they backed up by the evidence.
I'll tell you what kind of "pornography" Ted Bundy was in to: Pictures of Cheerleaders. Not the raunchy upskirt pictures that got cheervideos.com in trouble, just average everyday pictures of cheerleaders. He had shoeboxes full of this stuff in his car. (I tried to find a link, no luck. I learned this from one of those Discovery channel specials.)
I guess what I took away from this is that Pornography is in the eye of the beholder. I can totally imagine Ted thumbing thru his stack of cheerleader pictures, reliving his attacks or savoring the next one.
THANK YOU THANK YOU I remember the game but couldn't remember the song.
Alas, too bad that MP3 scrambles your brain, especially on those higher notes. I would love to listen to the theme song again but my head would surely explode.
Will the new version of MULE include a RIAA provision to protect my legally-mined crystite from the pirates?
My school didn't watch the thing go up, but I (and one other kid, we had weird schedules) were in the Library for Study Hall at the time. So we got to watch CNN (this was their first big scoop story) and see the thing go boom over and over again. One of the librarians had watched it, live, and she was ashen. She may be the only person from our high school that saw it live.
Our principal came over the PA after lunch and said "And yes, the rumors are true, the Space Shuttle has exploded." That was the first that many of us had heard about it.
I've often wondered how this affected all those who saw it. I was in Ninth Grade at the time, so maybe we were a little old for this kind of thing. Some people I know who are younger basically shared your experience, with all the kids suddenly realizing that life is fragile and can easily be broken. And silence.
I did watch the first launch and landing of the Shuttle (Columbia?) in, um, was it third grade? I wonder what the impact would have been had the thing blown up somewhere along the line.
Hello AC. You will surely be disheartened to learn that my first multimedia download (a QuickTime movie) was the Challenger explosion. Sound and everything. Pretty boring from launch up to about 77 seconds, as I recall.
I couldn't find the video from the extrememly sadistic CNN cameraman who immediately panned away from the explosion and zoomed in on Christie McAuliffe's parents to capture their horrified reaction as their beloved daughter turned into a crispy critter before their very eyes. But of course they didn't have google back then.
And yes, I'm aware that the Challenger crew didn't actually die until their compartment hit the water after falling back to earth. I remember something about Rockwell funneling money from the Space Shuttle program over to the B-1 program, which is the sort of thing that SHOULD get you up on a soapbox about immorality and stupidity. Jokes are not immoral, greed is.
Another thing: Post-Titanic, all boats had to have enough life jackets and life boats for everyone on board. Where's the big-ass parachute on the crew compartment, that would have saved athe Challenger crew, some of whom had activated their oxygen packs after the explosion, prior to going splat in the ocean?
That STILL pisses me off. Far more than any tasteless joke. They didn't have to die. They were alive, dammit.
On the other hand, Peggy Noonan got to write a kick-ass speech, perfectly delivered by Wise Old Papa Reagan. That was what had me in tears on Jan 28 1986. Since then I've learned to not be emotionally manipulated by politicians.
Ok, there are plenty more and I'm very pleased that the first post/thread is a series of Challenger jokes. Quite irreverent, just the way I like it. (there was a time when I could name all 7 astronauts, or should i say six astronauts and a teacher; let's see: Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Reznick, Christie McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Smith, Scobee.) (I only said that to feel better about laughing.)
Q: What color are Christie McAuliffe's eyes? A: Blue. One blew this way, and one blew that way.
Hey, I see your point but If I just agreed with you, slashdot would get kinda boring.
I'm not saying you want to round up Arabs. That was just an example of how reactionary thinking is not smart thinking.
You are completely right, people are scared for their lives and don't give a rat's ass about idealistic things like libery and freedom anymore. (Well I care, but those poll-takers never call me.)
How do we go about preserving our liberties in the face of "you're either with us or with the terrorists?" If people are going to buy into that, then we're doomed. If you can't criticize anything that the prez does, because we've instictively circled the wagons in a time of crisis, then I guess we have to wait out the crisis and hope sanity returns. Which I think is what's starting to happen.
It *has* been eight months or so since 9/11 (give or take, if you count daylight savings time) and I do think that things are "gettting back to normal". I flew a bunch a few weeks ago and people seemed to accept the increased seccurity measures without making much of a fuss, and the lines moved along quickly. People are shopping, people are going to Disney WOrld, the situation in Israel is bigger news than whatever's happening in Afghanistan.
My biggest concern is that "getting back to normal" means people remain blissfully ignorant of the world around them as they drive their SUVs through the suburbs...
Don't let your fear run your life. "Fear is the mind-killer" and all that.
Sure, it's easy to say round up all the arabs, pass a bunch of restrictive laws, but will that do anything? Some of those 9-11 guys were getting fake IDs from some lady (now mysteriously dead) in Tennesse (too lazy to google). So a better fake ID would do nothing to prevent a crooked DMV worker from handing them out to a terrorist. (In fact it might be worse, if the authorities think "you have the new super-ID, you must be legit" and put too much creedence into your forged ID.)
Another point: Remeber that shoe-bomber guy? Eric Froess or something like that (again, too lazy to google) Well, the point is when al-qaeda wanted to attack again, they KNEW we were PROFILING and called on a white guy to carry out their attack.
I'm sorry your shit blew up on Sep. 11. But you're cowering under a rock and trusting The Government to make all the right decisions. Well' after 9-11 America was scared shitless. We made some hasty, reactionary decisions, like many portions of the USA Patriot act that had nothing to do with what happened on 9-11 now that they're scared shitless is not the best plan. Don't be scared. It makes more sense to realize that the shit that went down on 9-11 has been years in the making and the only reason it blindsided so many people is because we've had our heads in the sand for so goddam long.
Now would be a good time to pull your head out of the safe, comfy sand and take a good look around.
Either you're a Native American, or you're talking out of your ass.
Americans don't want those crap jobs you talk about. Well, the underclass who didn't graduate high school might want them, but the average american can make $6/hr as a hotel maid or $8/hr folding t-shirts at The Gap with their other high school friends. Which would you pick?
You seem concerned that the Great Unwashed are going to breed us White Folk right out of America. (Extrapolating from your steinreport web page.) Let me ask you, what was your response when President Bush barred U.S. aid to international groups that advocate abortion rights? Because if you don't want to be overrun by a horde of non-White Americans, you should support that kind of thing.
Did you ever think that maybe H1-B visas are a clever trick to skim the cream off of other countries' vat of talent, making sure that American Comanies remain dominant since all the clever Indians move to The States? So while it may fill our country up with Undesirables, it strengthens our strongest asset, the American economy.
Another funny idea I've heard is this: When your junk mail comes, mail credit card company A's offer in the prepaid envelope from company B. And so on.
I have never done it but it sure sounds pretty funny.
I gave some money to The Nature Conservancy once upon a time, and they kept sending me junk junk junk. I finally wrote back, on the back of one of their pieces of lieterature, with a Sharpie: "Stop sending me stuff or I will kill a baby deer."
Word. It should be quite obvious to everyone that this guy took a box of old ass parts and decided to "spray" a case around them. I have one of those old diamond viper 330 cards (with the "loopback" cable) and now I realize why I've been saving it all these years! I bet I could dig up an old apple HD, too. And I have a Packard Bell MB w/riser card that's been avoiding the trash can for like seven new addresses...
FUnny thing about the apple HD, which you can see in the pic if you look close and turn your head sideways: It is OEMm'ed by IBM. Back in the day, I totally floored a Mac person on a tech support call for a non-booting computer. The hard drive was "sticking," if you tapped it with a pencil eraser the drive would spin up and it would work fine.
I showed The mac User the IBM sticker on the HDD and it just didn't fit into her Mac v. IBM paradigm. I wonder if she ever recovered enough to secure that air traffic control data travelling across the Atlantic on undersea cables. (On the Open Source tip, that job was the first and last time I actually saw someone using PGP.)
Well, no, not really. I can just view their competitor's site. Which is what I do.
This may sound odd to you, but the level of W3C compliance of the Forum section of MSI's web page played no role in my purchasing decision. Similarly, I have no plans to leave my credit union because their cheesy internet banking app doesn't support small-time browsers. Is that flamebait or pragmatism? Maybe it's just laziness.
As for any web sites I've had a hand in creating, which I can count on one thumb, you can at least get to the content whether you're using IE or Lynx.
I'm not the one who needs to be evangelized. Sorta like in Field of Dreams -- "If you build it, they will come." If we could get some webmasters to build better sites AND/OR build a better browser I would be using Opera or Mozilla or whatever. But the way things are today, I've yet to see a site where IE couldn't deliver content to my screen. In my humble experience, no other browser can make that claim.
I am a diehard IE user (and Proxomitron user, and ad.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 hosts file editor) simply because all too often, sites don't work with OTHER BROWSERS.
For instance, if you try to do a search on the MSI forums page it doesn't work with Mozilla 0.9.9. Many other sites experience similar problems. Like my online banking page doesn't like Mozilla.
You can whine all you want about Webmasters not abiding by WWW standards and using custom extensions, but you know what? At the end of the day you still need to use IE to view their site. And I am not in a position to shun all poorly crafted web sites because of some ideological motivation, be it hatred of MS or proprietary webmasters.
All you haters out there, why don't quit yer bitchin and build a browser with the same functionality as IE? I would love to get off the MS train but none of the other browsers work.
(IE 6 is kind of a piece of crap too, but IE 5.x works well for me.)
--The Supreme Court recommends that all US companies hire illegal immigrants, they're cheaper and have no protection from unfair labor practices.
Clie? How do you say that? Is it like "clay" or is it like Paul Klee? Is it Klee-ay? Does it rhyme with Lie?
Why doesn't it have 802.11b network support? I can't spend my whole life beaming IR, that's way too inconvenient.
And assuming that they did build 802.11b support for this clee-thingie, is there a Citrix client for Palm OS? Because then it would really be useful. Otherwise I will stick with iPAQ Pocket PC's tiny little 320x240 screen. I hate that little screen but it's more of a business tool and less of a digital camera / mp3 player / way to impress your friends. Especially if you need to run your Windows application on wireless handheld devices using 128-bit SSL over MetaFrame.
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When I have the urge to transfer a lot of files, I zip them first, which makes them one file. Plus it's smaller than the sum of its parts.
Also, if drag and drop is that important to you, you could just do it from IE.
I guess I'm grumpy tonight, but what's wrong with goin' to the good ole CLI cmd.exe and typing FTP when you want to, um, ftp?
Maybe it's me, I just don't see how adding a GUI to FTP helps much. Of course I don't do it very often, you are prolly some mega web designer with a thousand ftp sites to log into every day.
Still, it reminds me of the mac user whose way of expaining the FTP server wasn't responding was to say "the dog isn't running."
Fetch, boy! Fetch!
Lemmy...
Nope, I just can't accept that a guy named Lemmy even comes close to that.
When you say "women are responsible for slightly more than half of the serious domestic violence" Do you mean because they were asking for it?
(That was a joke.)
Women in the U.S. are likely to feel superior to men. I've noticed that this is a very popular theme in television ads. For example, the ad for Sears' ToolTown; it shows mom driving the minivan and telling the children to behave themselves in the store. As it turns out, the children are three grown dopey looking men.
So this would seem to be an instance of the superior woman. But is it really? Consider all the extra work this woman has to do to care for these three grown men. She has to drive them around, keep tabs on them, be their social conscience. While it's true that she's in control, I don't think that she's really superior, if you consider that she's basically a chauffeur.
There are many more ads like this one, that seem to play on women's superiority. In fact, I think they offer women servitude, wrapped up in a package that looks like dominance. Men are dumb, they need us to help them through day-to-day life. The message is that women, the superior sex, have an obligation to help these poor dopey men make it from day to day.
That's not superiority, even though it may make women THINK they're superior, and clearly the woman in the Sears ad THINKS (no, she knows) that she's superior. In actuality she's trapped by her superiority because the only way she can excel is by serving inferior men.
To echo your comment about Churchill and India...
Gorbachev was faced with a similar situation towards the end of the Soviet Union. Once the eastern bloc and the smaller SSRs got a little taste of freedom, they all had to have it, now, and USSR collapsed. If he could have meted out reform over years, perhaps decades, the Soviet Union might still be around today.
I'm no expert, but last I heard, Russia as a "free country" isn't doing much better than the USSR. Let me rephrase that: The people of Russia aren't much better off as Russians then they were as Soviets a dozen years ago. THey may even be worse off, even though their country isn't "evil" anymore, they're just as poor, maybe moreso.
For my money, the one thing that counters your argument about British Imperialism "adding value" to its colonies is the "Divide and Conquer" aspect of it. Look at all the crazy borders between nations in Africa and the Middle East. The Brits drew them that way to keep internal strife at a maximum, thus Britian could reign supreme at the International level. Afghanistan for example, why is it even a "nation" when as we keep hearing it's just a bunch of warlords? Perhaps there are some parts of the world that aren't easily integrated into Western Civilization's paradigm of how society works, but the Brits just drew the lines on the map anyway, put their man in power, and said "here's your counrty!"
Funny how we're all getting into these rambling political discussions; definitely wasn't that big a thread pre 9-11...
IBM has great support, that's true. Their website is great if you have a bunch of laptops to administer, you can build a little database of all your systems, yadda yadda yadda. I recently pulled an unused laptop out of the closet; wondered What's this doing here? The HD was bad, the unit was still under warranty (1 month left on 3 year warranty). IBM sent me a new HD, no questions asked.
The problem with ThinkPads, though, is that they don't have that little windows key. Obviously, this might not be a problem for everyone. However I have become dependent on Windows-E, Windows-F and Windows-R in my daily life. It's another one of those things they copied from the Mac, and it's awesome.
I had to give up using that old ThinkPad because of the windows key problem. I wish IBM would get off their high horse, realize that Microsoft won, and start putting the windows key on their laptop. It's really useful, especially if you run Windows.
Windows XP Recycle Bin is in the lower right corner. They've been waiting 15 years to do that.
I've always thought it was:
Democrats: Rape the earth and all Americans will be rich
Republicans: Rape the earth and Republicans will be rich
Neither party has a viable philosophy because both parties have (mostly) the same philosophy. Issues like abortion, the right to die, and drug use, which are basically non-issues, (or personal issues which shouldn't be decided by politicians) are the only differences between them. Both are pro-big-business. Both get most of their $$$ from big business.
Ultimately they will fail because their survival is predicated on a 16th-centurty paradigm of creating wealth from an endless supply of natural resources. Yeah, a lot of it is still valid today, but some of it is starting to look a little fishy in a world with 50% of the rainforest it once had, dozens of species going extinct every day, and a human population whose growth rate is akin to a cancer.
But that's just my opinion, and it's totally off-topic too!
No wrongdoing?
When grandma goes to Circuit City to buy a computer so she can get email from the grandkids, and comes home with a $3500 Pentium IV 512 MB RAM GeForve IV and Printer Scanner DVD-RW, you don't think that's wrongdoing?
No *respectable* business will sell you something you don't need, or the wrong product to suit your needs.
Both parties behaved improperly. California entered into an agreement without knowing what they were getting, and Oracle led them down the primrose path (or should I say they maximized value for shareholders.) In the real business world, the company would just say, look, we know we signed but we're not paying anyway, here's your software back. Sue us if you have the time and money. Since it the State of California, Oracle will probably get their bucks since Cali. has to follow the letter of the law.
(I worked for a dot-com that simply didn't pay and returned the software to another dot-com, after management realized we didn't need a $70,000 email auto-response system. On the other hand, no-one realized we didn't need $30,000 of routers to connect two offices with less than 20 people each. Ah, those were the days.)
You aren't in favor of treating people equally, regardless of skin color? That's pretty screwed up, man.
For some reason it's not working for me :-(
Win2k sp2, all the latest updates, IE 5.0 (the one that comes with 2000)
I get about a five-line javascript error. And I just set my security level to Low, it still don't work. Damn MS products, don't even respond to the latest 'sploits properly.
Damn, where were you when we were looking for someone to redesign the web page at work?
Your rant would have been a killer business plan back in '99..
I am giving you a +1 funny, even though I don't have any karma.
Your comment about Ted Bundy is not very accurate. True, he did make that claim about pornography as he neared his execution. Most people don't think those comments were particularly sincere, nor are they backed up by the evidence.
I'll tell you what kind of "pornography" Ted Bundy was in to: Pictures of Cheerleaders. Not the raunchy upskirt pictures that got cheervideos.com in trouble, just average everyday pictures of cheerleaders. He had shoeboxes full of this stuff in his car. (I tried to find a link, no luck. I learned this from one of those Discovery channel specials.)
I guess what I took away from this is that Pornography is in the eye of the beholder. I can totally imagine Ted thumbing thru his stack of cheerleader pictures, reliving his attacks or savoring the next one.
Yuck.
THANK YOU THANK YOU I remember the game but couldn't remember the song.
Alas, too bad that MP3 scrambles your brain, especially on those higher notes. I would love to listen to the theme song again but my head would surely explode.
Will the new version of MULE include a RIAA provision to protect my legally-mined crystite from the pirates?
My school didn't watch the thing go up, but I (and one other kid, we had weird schedules) were in the Library for Study Hall at the time. So we got to watch CNN (this was their first big scoop story) and see the thing go boom over and over again. One of the librarians had watched it, live, and she was ashen. She may be the only person from our high school that saw it live.
Our principal came over the PA after lunch and said "And yes, the rumors are true, the Space Shuttle has exploded." That was the first that many of us had heard about it.
I've often wondered how this affected all those who saw it. I was in Ninth Grade at the time, so maybe we were a little old for this kind of thing. Some people I know who are younger basically shared your experience, with all the kids suddenly realizing that life is fragile and can easily be broken. And silence.
I did watch the first launch and landing of the Shuttle (Columbia?) in, um, was it third grade? I wonder what the impact would have been had the thing blown up somewhere along the line.
Hello AC. You will surely be disheartened to learn that my first multimedia download (a QuickTime movie) was the Challenger explosion. Sound and everything. Pretty boring from launch up to about 77 seconds, as I recall.
I couldn't find the video from the extrememly sadistic CNN cameraman who immediately panned away from the explosion and zoomed in on Christie McAuliffe's parents to capture their horrified reaction as their beloved daughter turned into a crispy critter before their very eyes. But of course they didn't have google back then.
And yes, I'm aware that the Challenger crew didn't actually die until their compartment hit the water after falling back to earth. I remember something about Rockwell funneling money from the Space Shuttle program over to the B-1 program, which is the sort of thing that SHOULD get you up on a soapbox about immorality and stupidity. Jokes are not immoral, greed is.
Another thing: Post-Titanic, all boats had to have enough life jackets and life boats for everyone on board. Where's the big-ass parachute on the crew compartment, that would have saved athe Challenger crew, some of whom had activated their oxygen packs after the explosion, prior to going splat in the ocean?
That STILL pisses me off. Far more than any tasteless joke. They didn't have to die. They were alive, dammit.
On the other hand, Peggy Noonan got to write a kick-ass speech, perfectly delivered by Wise Old Papa Reagan. That was what had me in tears on Jan 28 1986. Since then I've learned to not be emotionally manipulated by politicians.
Ok, there are plenty more and I'm very pleased that the first post/thread is a series of Challenger jokes. Quite irreverent, just the way I like it. (there was a time when I could name all 7 astronauts, or should i say six astronauts and a teacher; let's see: Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Reznick, Christie McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, Smith, Scobee.) (I only said that to feel better about laughing.)
Q: What color are Christie McAuliffe's eyes?
A: Blue. One blew this way, and one blew that way.
Hey I never said it was a good joke!
Hey, I see your point but If I just agreed with you, slashdot would get kinda boring.
I'm not saying you want to round up Arabs. That was just an example of how reactionary thinking is not smart thinking.
You are completely right, people are scared for their lives and don't give a rat's ass about idealistic things like libery and freedom anymore. (Well I care, but those poll-takers never call me.)
How do we go about preserving our liberties in the face of "you're either with us or with the terrorists?" If people are going to buy into that, then we're doomed. If you can't criticize anything that the prez does, because we've instictively circled the wagons in a time of crisis, then I guess we have to wait out the crisis and hope sanity returns. Which I think is what's starting to happen.
It *has* been eight months or so since 9/11 (give or take, if you count daylight savings time) and I do think that things are "gettting back to normal". I flew a bunch a few weeks ago and people seemed to accept the increased seccurity measures without making much of a fuss, and the lines moved along quickly. People are shopping, people are going to Disney WOrld, the situation in Israel is bigger news than whatever's happening in Afghanistan.
My biggest concern is that "getting back to normal" means people remain blissfully ignorant of the world around them as they drive their SUVs through the suburbs...
Don't let your fear run your life. "Fear is the mind-killer" and all that.
Sure, it's easy to say round up all the arabs, pass a bunch of restrictive laws, but will that do anything? Some of those 9-11 guys were getting fake IDs from some lady (now mysteriously dead) in Tennesse (too lazy to google). So a better fake ID would do nothing to prevent a crooked DMV worker from handing them out to a terrorist. (In fact it might be worse, if the authorities think "you have the new super-ID, you must be legit" and put too much creedence into your forged ID.)
Another point: Remeber that shoe-bomber guy? Eric Froess or something like that (again, too lazy to google) Well, the point is when al-qaeda wanted to attack again, they KNEW we were PROFILING and called on a white guy to carry out their attack.
I'm sorry your shit blew up on Sep. 11. But you're cowering under a rock and trusting The Government to make all the right decisions. Well' after 9-11 America was scared shitless. We made some hasty, reactionary decisions, like many portions of the USA Patriot act that had nothing to do with what happened on 9-11 now that they're scared shitless is not the best plan. Don't be scared. It makes more sense to realize that the shit that went down on 9-11 has been years in the making and the only reason it blindsided so many people is because we've had our heads in the sand for so goddam long.
Now would be a good time to pull your head out of the safe, comfy sand and take a good look around.
mass immigration of Third worlders
Either you're a Native American, or you're talking out of your ass.
Americans don't want those crap jobs you talk about. Well, the underclass who didn't graduate high school might want them, but the average american can make $6/hr as a hotel maid or $8/hr folding t-shirts at The Gap with their other high school friends. Which would you pick?
You seem concerned that the Great Unwashed are going to breed us White Folk right out of America. (Extrapolating from your steinreport web page.) Let me ask you, what was your response when President Bush barred U.S. aid to international groups that advocate abortion rights? Because if you don't want to be overrun by a horde of non-White Americans, you should support that kind of thing.
Did you ever think that maybe H1-B visas are a clever trick to skim the cream off of other countries' vat of talent, making sure that American Comanies remain dominant since all the clever Indians move to The States? So while it may fill our country up with Undesirables, it strengthens our strongest asset, the American economy.
Get a passport. It's $65 bucks, it's good for ten years, and it is the most universally accepted form of idenitification.
No, I'm not talking about the Microsoft passport.
Cool.
Another funny idea I've heard is this: When your junk mail comes, mail credit card company A's offer in the prepaid envelope from company B. And so on.
I have never done it but it sure sounds pretty funny.
I gave some money to The Nature Conservancy once upon a time, and they kept sending me junk junk junk. I finally wrote back, on the back of one of their pieces of lieterature, with a Sharpie: "Stop sending me stuff or I will kill a baby deer."
It worked.
Word. It should be quite obvious to everyone that this guy took a box of old ass parts and decided to "spray" a case around them. I have one of those old diamond viper 330 cards (with the "loopback" cable) and now I realize why I've been saving it all these years! I bet I could dig up an old apple HD, too. And I have a Packard Bell MB w/riser card that's been avoiding the trash can for like seven new addresses...
FUnny thing about the apple HD, which you can see in the pic if you look close and turn your head sideways: It is OEMm'ed by IBM. Back in the day, I totally floored a Mac person on a tech support call for a non-booting computer. The hard drive was "sticking," if you tapped it with a pencil eraser the drive would spin up and it would work fine.
I showed The mac User the IBM sticker on the HDD and it just didn't fit into her Mac v. IBM paradigm. I wonder if she ever recovered enough to secure that air traffic control data travelling across the Atlantic on undersea cables. (On the Open Source tip, that job was the first and last time I actually saw someone using PGP.)
Well, no, not really. I can just view their competitor's site. Which is what I do.
This may sound odd to you, but the level of W3C compliance of the Forum section of MSI's web page played no role in my purchasing decision. Similarly, I have no plans to leave my credit union because their cheesy internet banking app doesn't support small-time browsers. Is that flamebait or pragmatism? Maybe it's just laziness.
As for any web sites I've had a hand in creating, which I can count on one thumb, you can at least get to the content whether you're using IE or Lynx.
I'm not the one who needs to be evangelized. Sorta like in Field of Dreams -- "If you build it, they will come." If we could get some webmasters to build better sites AND/OR build a better browser I would be using Opera or Mozilla or whatever. But the way things are today, I've yet to see a site where IE couldn't deliver content to my screen. In my humble experience, no other browser can make that claim.
I am a diehard IE user (and Proxomitron user, and ad.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 hosts file editor) simply because all too often, sites don't work with OTHER BROWSERS.
For instance, if you try to do a search on the MSI forums page it doesn't work with Mozilla 0.9.9. Many other sites experience similar problems. Like my online banking page doesn't like Mozilla.
You can whine all you want about Webmasters not abiding by WWW standards and using custom extensions, but you know what? At the end of the day you still need to use IE to view their site. And I am not in a position to shun all poorly crafted web sites because of some ideological motivation, be it hatred of MS or proprietary webmasters.
All you haters out there, why don't quit yer bitchin and build a browser with the same functionality as IE? I would love to get off the MS train but none of the other browsers work.
(IE 6 is kind of a piece of crap too, but IE 5.x works well for me.)
--The Supreme Court recommends that all US companies hire illegal immigrants, they're cheaper and have no protection from unfair labor practices.
Clie? How do you say that? Is it like "clay" or is it like Paul Klee? Is it Klee-ay? Does it rhyme with Lie?
Why doesn't it have 802.11b network support? I can't spend my whole life beaming IR, that's way too inconvenient.
And assuming that they did build 802.11b support for this clee-thingie, is there a Citrix client for Palm OS? Because then it would really be useful. Otherwise I will stick with iPAQ Pocket PC's tiny little 320x240 screen. I hate that little screen but it's more of a business tool and less of a digital camera / mp3 player / way to impress your friends. Especially if you need to run your Windows application on wireless handheld devices using 128-bit SSL over MetaFrame.